Living the Christian Life Resource Books

In What You Do Best in the Body of Christ, Bruce Bugbee helps you identify your God-given spiritual gifts, personal style, and ministry passion. And he shows how they point to your unique role and purpose in the body of Christ when they are expressed together. Drawing from biblical principles, this book provides proven tools and a conversational approach that will help you fulfill God's will for your life. You'll discover:

• Your God-given Spiritual Gifts indicate what you're equipped to do competently
• Your God-given Personal Style indicates how you can serve with energy and authenticity
• Your God-given Ministry Passion indicates where you're motivated to serve
• Together, they indicate what you do best in the body of Christ!

You'll find plenty of helpful charts and self-assessments---plus insights into the fallacies and pitfalls that can hinder your effectiveness. Start learning today what God wants you to do, and experience more enthusiasm, greater joy, and real significance in your life and ministry.

Dr. Sinclair B. Ferguson is senior minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, S.C., and a distinguished visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Dallas, Texas.

Filling the gap between approaches that are too simple and others that are too technical, Grasping God's Word starts by equipping you with general principles of interpretation, then moves on to apply those principles to specific genres and contexts. Features include:

• Proven in classrooms across the country
• Hands-on exercises to guide you through the interpretation process
• Emphasis on real-life application
• Accompanying workbook (sold separately)

This book presents eight basic doctrines of Christianity---the Bible, God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Human Beings, Redemption, The Church, and The Last Things---in clear, simple language that gives seasoned Christians a fresh understanding of the Bible and its teachings and puts new Christians on familiar terms with Christian doctrine. Gilbert Bilezikian does not shape his analysis of these doctrines in the worn-out, rationalistic categories of older systematic theologies, but in vibrant, dynamic language designed to communicate biblical truths to contemporary believers.

Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the classic "Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found.

Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration bring us nearer to one another and to God.

Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities---and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." Celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, is revealed as critically important, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.

This is not a "prosperity gospel" book or a "get-rich-quick scheme," but revelation that has come to those who have applied this simple principle from Deuteronomy 28:8 to their lives. The Storehouse Principle reveals how to take what the Bible really says about money and wealth and change your world with it.